Posted inClinical negligence Issue 7

Private International Law and Clinical Negligence (Part 2)

Roberts v Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help [2020] EWCA Civ 926 The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (“the 1978 Act”) has extra-territorial effect and applied its limitation period to a contribution claim brought by the MOD and Soldiers, Sailors,…
March 8, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 7Tags: , ,
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 6 Procedural

Private International Law and Clinical Negligence

Roberts v Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association [2020] EWHC 994  This article originally appeared in Issue 6 (September 2020). The High Court decided two preliminary issues of private international law in a claim alleging negligence of a midwife resulting in acute profound hypoxic brain injury at a hospital in…
September 1, 2020Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 6, ProceduralTags: , ,
Posted inInquiries Issue 5

How to Improve Patient Safety Post-Paterson

Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Issues raised by Paterson  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). The report of the Independent Inquiry into the case of surgeon Dr Ian Paterson was published on 4 February 2020. It makes for harrowing reading.  One of the Inquiry’s key…
May 1, 2020Posted inInquiries, Issue 5
Posted inIssue 3 Public

What is a ‘Mother’ in Law?

TT, R (on the application of) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam)  This article originally appeared in Issue 3 (November 2019). A person who undergoes the physical and biological process of carrying a pregnancy and giving birth, irrespective of gender? This was the ruling…
November 1, 2019Posted inIssue 3, PublicTags: ,